Not living, just wasting time

So I friend a lot of awesome people over the weekend, get really excited -- and then all but disappear off the face of the Internet for a few days.  Sorry about that.  ^_^;  Yesterday was very hectic, and I'm just being active and feeling apathetic as I usually do, so I'm still trying to get caught up on leaving and replying to comments.  I should have all that done by the end of this week, so apologies for any late replies -- I have a tendency to do that anyway.  XD;

On Sunday two of my friends interviewed Bill McKibben for their radio show, and, well, I have a few things to say about that......

( On good climate change skepticism and how not to run a debate )

Monday was the exam, and I don't think I did too badly on it, though I really should've studied more because there were quite a few things I totally blanked on.  So yeah, pretty nervous to get my results, especially considering I really do need to step it up these next few months.  As for the group project, we're working on the conflict in Kosovo and whether or not self-defense should have been used to justify humanitarian intervention there.  It's definitely an interesting topic, even though it's still a project, and I'm terrible at oral presentations, so.  D:  We're meeting as a group tomorrow over lunch, meeting with the professors next Tuesday (with our bibliography and plan in hand), taking our final exam next Thursday, and presenting the following Monday.  So yeah, pretty full plate here, and I'm not exactly Mr. Hakuna Matata when it comes to schoolwork.  :PPP

Tuesday was my busy day: the radio show (one of the morning show hosts from the town's other big radio station came to visit our studio before my show was set to air, and we had a pretty good discussion about the lack of variety and getting sick of overplayed music on commercial radio, equipment failures, etc.), the Japanese review session (in which I have forgotten most of my vocab, and in which we all played a game where the sensei read out a word and we had to slap a card on a table with the kanji of that word on it -- it was pretty fun, but also a bit dangerous and competitive, which made it even funner), and yoga (which, because of the fact that it's at the end of a long day and the fact that I am horrendously out of shape, made me feel even more tired than before, even though I enjoyed myself a lot).  And not much of interest happened today, save actually having something halfway intelligent to say in class for once, missing the movie the Japanese department was showing (which sucks because the movies they put on are almost always extremely good), and generally having a tiny stomachache and maybe having a bit of a cold coming on.  -_-;  Tomorrow I plan on seeing Climatology Nerd participate in an Iron Chef contest, so that should be fun!

Before I go on, some links where you can donate to help relief efforts after yesterday's earthquake in Haiti:
International Red Cross // American Red Cross
Oxfam America
World Vision
Partners in Health
UNICEF
Direct Relief International
International Medical Corps
ADRA International
Artists For Peace and Justice
Médecins Sans Frontières
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
Canadians can donate to any of the charities listed on this page, which I found through my Friends of Friends list.  Americans can also donate $10 to the American Red Cross by texting "HAITI" to 90999.

I'll probably do a real links post sometime later this week.  ;-)

All right, some memes!

First, the good ol' "ask me anything at all" meme that's been going around the f-list for a couple of days now.  I already sorta kinda did it on my intro post here; you can comment either there or here with any questions you got, about, well, anything at all.  And don't be afraid of asking me a lot, either.  ^_^;

From swipeatronspark:

the { first ✚ impression } meme
(This might be more appropriate for all of those who've been around for a while, but newbies are more than welcome to comment too.  8D)

From eska_rina:

ship me meme
(Same deal as above.)